Carson Field has worked full-time in the sports media industry since 2020 in Colorado, Texas and Wyoming as well as nationally, and he has earned degrees from Arizona State University and Texas A&M University.

John Mateer’s OU football debut was just about everything Brent Venables, Ben Arbuckle and Sooners fans hoped it could be in a 35-3 win over Illinois State.

John Mateer passed for 392 yards and three touchdowns in a record-setting first game at Oklahoma, and the 18th-ranked Sooners beat Illinois State 35-3 on Saturday night.

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The Oklahoma Sooners enter the 2025 season in Vannini’s top 25, led by QB John Mateer and RB Jaydn Ott in the SEC.

Florida State, LSU, Michigan and Oklahoma were among the big-time winners from the first full Saturday of the 2025 season

Illinois State football opens its season on one of college football's grandest stages Saturday as the Redbirds travel to Norman, Oklahoma, to face the Sooners at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial

Brent Venables has a lot invested in the Oklahoma football program, and his journey started long before he became the head coach in 2022. Sooners fans remember Venables from his time as a defensive coordinator from 1999-2011 before he left to take on the same role at Clemson.